11 Sweden-based Sámi Artists Addressing Indigenous Pasts, Presents, and Futures
The 2015 book Contemporary Sámi Art and Design (Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing) was the first…
Podkástta sámaidahttima birra, man vuođđun ja šaddanbáikin leat sámeeallinvuogit. Mii ságastallat das mo doallat iežamet dearvan ja gievran, suodjalit min eatnamiid, servodagaid ja kultuvrraid kolonialasttalaš diliin. Vuostildanfearánat lea ráhkaduvvon ovttasbarggus Árktalaš Silkegeaidnu -dutkanprošeavttain.
Listeners can hear the first five episodes below, or follow the podcast on Spotify or Soundcloud.
Kristin Solberg, Sarakka Gaup and host Tuula Sharma Vassvik talk about their connections to nature, Sámi language and family—ways of strengthening our culture and knowledge. They also focus on the body and knowledge about movement and ritual, embodying resistance and survivance.
A conversation with Sámi water-protectors and artists Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen and Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska, taking part in the movement to protect the fjord Riehppovuotna and its surrounding reindeer grazing lands from the Nussir ASA mining project.
An episode based on two conversations with Sámi politicians Ann Finnbog and Silje Karine Muotka, talking about the political issues closest to their hearts.
Music by: Torgeir Vassvik.
Mari Boine talks about her journey from the “shyest person in the world” to the carrier of a strong voice, listening to her ancestors and becoming an elder.
Music: Lihkahusat – Entranced, Mari Boine.
Ninthu Paramalingam from the podcast decolonize it and Vuostildanfearánat invited gender researcher and head of the Sámi queer organization Gármeres, Elisabeth Stubberud, and Timimie Gassko Märak (a Sámi poet, spoken word artist, protector of queer and Sámi rights and “professional homo”) to have a conversation about the many ways that Sámi culture relates to gender, sexuality and relations in what today can be called queer ways.
Credit: ALL AUDIO COURTESY VOSTILDANFEARÁNAT—SÁMI STORIES OF RESISTANCE.
Contributor biography
Tuula Sharma Vassvik is an Indigenous Sámi researcher, activist and artist working within Indigenous methodologies, indigenization and traditional knowledge. She now works as advisor for Sámi museasearvi, the Sami museum association on the Norwegian side of Sápmi.
“Vuostildanfearánat—Sámi stories of resistance” is a podcast made in collaboration with the research project Arctic Silkroad (UiT—The Arctic University of Norway). The podcast is in English to further facilitate connections with allies and other people affected by colonialism today, focusing on Sámi ways of resisting neo-colonial attacks on nature and Sámi ways of life.
This story is part of the Sámi Spotlight. View more content from the Spotlight here.
